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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discriminators--who happily are a minority of the rentors--don't talk about it either. The Housing Office in PBH can infer the difficulty from the fact that colored students return for help time after time, while white students rent the same rooms with no difficulty. Discrimination does exist, and it is a blot on Harvard's generally good record of race relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Room: I | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

...crane is a vanishing aristocrat. Like human monarchs, it has had trouble adjusting to modern times and keeping its royal line going. Most of the whooping cranes disappeared with the American and Canadian frontier. Today the crane is the rarest bird on the continent; only 25 are known to exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Vanishing Aristocrat | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...values of the good old days-and no one can do much about it. Its successes, few though they may be, are another matter, for the super-patriots are a small minority, and it is only the fears and apathy of the majority that allows them to exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stampede | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...your "Theology of Saucers" [Aug. 18] article: It is well for Father Francis Connell to know that whether flying saucers are real or ionized air bubbles, people on other planets do exist. According to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, theologian and mystic, God created myriads of worlds and they are all peopled. Father Connell has labored mightily, like a 20th century Aquinas, to classify the status of beings from other planets, but actually, as to religion, they fall into no specifically Catholic categories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...first time, a group of Western newsmen got a peek at some of them. An Egyptian army captain rolled back the monstrous iron gates of famed Kubbeh Palace and cheerfully announced: "Boys, you're going to see things here that you probably thought didn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A KING'S HOME | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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